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Jean Prouve "Chaise en Bois"
$5,800List Price
About the Item
The switch from steel to wood gave Prouve an opportunity to experiment with traditional furniture-making methods that were paradoxically new to him, the machine-age avant-garde. Lovely through-tenons conspicuously join the wooden elements in four places. Though consistent with the modernist ethic of structural honesty, such labor-intensive joinery links Prouve to the craftsmen of an older era, that of his father Victor Prouve.
While made of wood (in this case oak), this war-time iteration of the "Chaise Standard" retains Prouve's signature rear leg that emphatically expresses the structural loads of the chair. Thus the distinctive profile, no less confidently architectural than the pilotis of a Le Corbusier building.
(We have another "Chaise en Bois" in stock, a very early example in beech, also in excellent condition.)
- Dimensions:Height: 32.25 in (81.92 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)Depth: 19 in (48.26 cm)Seat Height: 17.75 in (45.09 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1942
- Condition:Fine condition; no objectionable wear; wonderfullly rich patina.
- Seller Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: 0705058091209
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